Cisco Meraki MS350-24X Switch

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MS Cloud Managed Switches

The Cisco Meraki MS is the world's first cloud-managed switch, bringing the benefits of the cloud to enterprise networks: simplified management, reduced complexity, network wide visibility and control, and lower cost for branch and campus deployments.

Cisco Meraki access switching is available in two product lines — the MS220 and MS320 families. Mission-critical features — like deep, Layer 7 application visibility, virtual stacking, QoS for business critical applications, 802.1X access control, and more — are present in both families.

The MS320 is the flagship Cisco Meraki layer 3 access switch, designed for high-speed connectivity and high availability, with optional redundant power supplies. In addition, the MS320's full-PoE models are ideal for next generation 802.11ac wireless AP, including the Cisco Meraki MR34 — with plenty of budget to spare for other PoE clients.

The MS220 family provide layer 2 access switching, is ideal for deploying to branch locations, and supports an optional, rack-mountable remote PSU.

Inside the Meraki MS
MS220-48LP shown, features vary by model

Enterprise-Class Hardware
Cisco Meraki switches feature high-end hardware without the high-end price, including:

• Four built-in small form-factor pluggable transceivers (SFP / SFP+), two transceivers for MS220-8/P
• GbE and 10 GbE uplink ports for high-speed connectivity to aggregation layer switches or other upstream devices
• Wire-speed switch fabric (up to 176 Gbps) and QoS queues per port for converged voice, video, and data deployments
• Low power consumption, quiet acoustic designs, and shallow rack depth, which enable flexible deployment in wiring closets as well as offices and classrooms
• Fanless design on select models
• Up to 740 watt PoE budget with PoE+ support for powering APs, phones, cameras, and other PoE enabled devices (124W for MS220-8/P)
• Lifetime hardware warranty and advanced replacement at no additional cost
• Field-replaceable, hot-swappable power supplies and RPS option for mission-critical applications

Full Enterprise Feature Set
Cisco Meraki switches include all of the traditional Ethernet features found on the highest end products, including:

• Quality-of-Service (QoS) to prioritize mission critical traffic such as voice and video
• IEEE 802.1X support for port based network access control
• MAC-based RADIUS auth and MAC whitelisting
• Voice VLAN support for simplified VoIP deployments
• Port Mirroring to monitor network traffic
• DHCP snooping to prevent users from adding unauthorized DHCP servers on the network
• IGMP Snooping to optimize network performance with multicast traffic
• Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for high-capacity trunking, stacking, and increased availability
• Broadcast storm protection, spanning tree, BPDU guard, root guard, and other safeguards to guard against misconfigurations and reduce convergence time
• Per port VLAN configuration
• Multiple administrative roles with sophisticated security policy management
• Layer 3 on MS320 series extends routing down to the network edge

Simplified Management and Operations

Cisco Meraki's cloud managed architecture makes it simpler than ever to quickly provision and reconfigure switch ports with security, QoS, and other parameters. The Cisco Meraki dashboard provides unified policies, event logs, and monitoring, which make it easy to manage and grow large network deployments.

By providing a complete, powerful set of management functions over the web, Cisco Meraki's cloud-based management eliminates the need for proprietary command line configuration interfaces which require expensive and time consuming certifications. Cisco Meraki MS switches can be fully deployed and provisioned in minutes, without requiring any local configuration or staging. Additional or replacement switches can be sent to remote offices and installed by non-technical staff, saving thousands of dollars in time and travel expenses.

The Cisco Meraki MS family also includes several remote diagnostic features, from network connectivity and cable integrity tests to latency measurement tools. For deep client troubleshooting, administrators can even perform per-port remote pcap packet captures without any additional probes or hardware on site.

Layer 7 Visibility
Cisco Meraki is the only switch to include integrated Layer 7 fingerprinting. Identify hundreds of applications from business apps to BitTorrent and YouTube. User fingerprinting with Google-like search allows administrators to easily identify and control individual users, PCs, iMacs, iPads, Androids, and other devices. This unprecedented visibility allows you to optimize network resources and maintain optimal network performance.

Converged Voice, Video and Data Environments
The Cisco Meraki switch family is designed to unify data, voice, and video onto a single IP backbone. All Cisco Meraki switches support rich quality- of-service (QoS) functionality for prioritizing data, voice, and video traffic. The switches support eight class-of-service (CoS) queues on every port, enabling them to maintain end-to-end traffic prioritization.

PoE models provide 15.4 watts of power per port for VoIP telephones, IP security cameras, wireless access points (APs), and other IP devices. The Cisco Meraki MS switches also support standards-based 25.5 watt (30 watt max per port) IEEE 802.3at for powering networked devices like multiple radio IEEE 802.11n APs and video phones that may require more power than available with IEEE 802.3af. In addition, using LLDP, PoE power is intelligently budgeted to maximize the number of PoE clients supported.

To ease deployment, Cisco Meraki switches support the industry- standard Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), enabling switches to automatically discover Ethernet-enabled devices, determine their power requirements and join the correct virtual LAN (VLAN).

Cisco Meraki's Unified Software Architecture
Cisco Meraki switches run the same Cisco Meraki operating system used by Cisco Meraki's firewalls and wireless LAN products. The use of a common operating system allows Cisco Meraki to deliver a consistent experience across all product lines

Layer 3
Cisco Meraki MS320 series switches augment security and performance with built-in layer 3 benefits. Large network deployments can create scalable network architecutres and manage routing between VLANs through Cisco Meraki's intuitive, web-based dashboard.

Specifying Layer 3 subnets and routes

Designed for Reliability & Environmental Efficiency

The Cisco Meraki switch family was designed for reliable, long-lived operation in wiring closet environments, which may be prone to high temperatures and limited ventilation. By minimizing total component count and only using proven switching silicon, Cisco Meraki is able to deliver mean time between failure (MTBF) ratings of over 750,000 hours on products such as the Cisco Meraki MS220-8.

Each Cisco Meraki switch also operates with a split-plane architecture, where silicon-based switching and data forwarding are separated from software-based control and management. By decoupling the underlying switching logic from control, each unit is able to deliver wire-speed switching even when advanced software features such as Layer 7 host and OS fingerprinting are enabled.

Finally, the highly integrated designs of Cisco Meraki switches result in power and cooling savings in large deployment environments of 30- 60% when compared with similar managed Gigabit switches.

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